Archive for the ‘social media’ Category

In a Twitter blog post Monday, Twitter co-founder Evan Williams announced that he was stepping down as CEO to focus more on “product strategy.”

In an announcement posted on their home page last week, social news site Propeller stated that it was shutting down on October 1.

Collective encyclopedia giant Wikipedia introduced an article assessment tool that will allow readers to rate articles according to several criteria, including sourcing, completeness, neutrality and readability.

Google is sending out about 8 million mobile devices to help compete with location-based services such as Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook Places.

This week: Google and Verizon’s net neutrality proposal; Twitter’s Tweet button; and the new Facebook fan pages

Involver is a social media marketing platform that has developed more than 30 useful apps for Facebook pages, including several free apps.

Facebook reaches a milestone; Twitter gets a new data center; Google Image Search and Bing Webmaster Tools get makeovers.

Social news sites provide ways to promote this content in a way that can attract more traffic, link love and, hopefully, interested new customers to your website.

MySpace gets a pretty, new makeover; coming soon: log in to multiple Google accounts at once; and Google loses a bit of its search marketshare

This week: Digg 4.0 and Mozilla Firefox 4.0; Google News gets revamped; and Twitter search jumps dramatically